Monthly Archives: July 2024

2024-07-03: News Headlines

Hebh Jamal, CHarlie Markbreiter, Mondoweiss. (2024-07-03). CUNY Encampment Felony Charges Could Set A Dangerous Precedent. popularresistance.org Earlier this month, the Manhattan district attorney's office dropped felony charges against nine pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at City College's encampment on the fateful police raid orchestrated on April 30. Thirteen protestors, however, could still serve felonies, including up to nine years of jail. While organizers have faced legal threats nationally, CUNY students — who, in addition to being predominantly POC and working class, are consistently some of the most militant student intifada members — have been hit with the highest charges. This sends a message: when it comes to Zionist repressio…

Associated Press (2024-07-03). Hezbollah's deputy leader says group would stop fighting with Israel if Gaza ceasefire agreed. scmp.com Hezbollah's deputy leader Sheik Naim Kassem said that the only definite path to a cease-fire on the Lebanon-Israel border is a full cease-fire in Gaza.

Osama Abu Jaser (2024-07-03). Lack of tents leads to shelter innovations. electronicintifada.net Converted buses, improvised trucks become places to sleep, eat and call home after Israel seizes Rafah border crossing.

Anand Naidoo (2024-07-03). The Heat: Middle East crisis escalates. america.cgtn.com Nearly nine months into the conflict in Gaza, the Hamas-run Health Ministry there reports nearly 38,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks, and more than 87,000 have been wounded. | On the Israeli side, the death toll is estimated to be about 1,100, with dozens of hostages still held captive. Sigrid Kaag, the United Nations Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza, spoke about conditions in Gaza, at a UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday. | Meanwhile, fighting between the Israeli Defense Forces and Hezbollah have increased at the Lebanon-Israel border. Increased cross-border, ti…

latintimes (2024-07-03). Illegal crossings at U.S.-Mexico border fall to three-year low during the month of June. latintimes.com More than 1.5 million encounters have taken place at the U.S.-Mexico border so far this year…

latintimes (2024-07-03). Florida's HB-433 went into effect on July 1. Here's what you need to know about how it affects migrants. latintimes.com Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' bill preventing local governments from requiring heat protection for outdoor workers recently went into effect this past July 1…

latintimes (2024-07-03). Celebrating the Fourth of July in style: thousands of immigrants set to be granted citizenship this week. latintimes.com Last fiscal year, USCIS welcomed 878,500 new citizens…

ecns.cn (2024-07-03). China's National Immigration Administration collaborates with other countries in repatriating individuals involved in smuggling cases. ecns.cn NIA is collaborating with relevant agencies of other countries to pursue fugitive criminals and repatriate individuals involved in smuggling cases.

Bochen Han (2024-07-03). US deports illegal Chinese migrants on charter removal flight. scmp.com Department of Homeland Security says the flight, which occurred over the weekend, took place in coordination with China's National Immigration Administration.

teleSUR, JCM (2024-07-03). EE.UU. anuncia que limita las solicitudes de asilo en la frontera. telesurtv.net Su entrada en vigor se producirá cuando el número de cruces en la frontera supere los 2.500 diarios durante una semana.

newarab (2024-07-03). Tunisia-Libya border crossing fully opens following delays. newarab.com

presstv.ir (2024-07-03). 'Gaza ceasefire sole way to resolve tensions on Lebanon's southern border'. presstv.ir A senior Hezbollah official says a comprehensive Gaza ceasefire is the sole way to deescalate tensions on Lebanon's southern border.

presstv.ir (2024-07-03). Hezbollah launches fresh attacks on Israeli military positions. presstv.ir Hezbollah fighters carry out a series of operations against Israeli military sites and soldiers along the border with the occupied territories.

presstv.ir (2024-07-03). US deports more than hundred Chinese migrants in rare move. presstv.ir The United States' Department of Homeland Security said that it deported 116 Chinese people back to China in the first such "large charter flight" in five years.

hindustantimes (2024-07-03). Another IDF War Failure In Gaza; Israel Army To Return To Area Claimed Clear Of Hamas? | Khan Younis. hindustantimes.com The Israeli army ordered a mass evacuation of Palestinians from much of Khan Younis. The evacuation call has renewed fears of a fresh Israeli ground assault in the Gaza Strip's second-largest city. The order suggested Khan Younis will be the latest of Israel's repeated raids into parts of Gaza, pursuing Hamas militants as they regroup. The move came after the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group fired a barrage of at least 20 rockets from the Khan Younis area at Israeli border communities. Watch this video to know more.

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2024-07-01: News Headlines

newarab (2024-07-01). Israel's foreign minister says Iran is 'worthy of destruction'. newarab.com ‚Å "A regime that threatens destruction deserves to be destroyed," Katz said in a post on X. He also said Israel will act with full force against Iran-backed Hezbollah if it does not stop firing at Israel from Lebanon and move away from the border. | Iran's UN mission said on Friday that if Israel embarks on a "full-scale military aggression" in Lebanon, "an obliterating war will e…

Amos Harel (2024-07-01). Fear of a full-blown conflict in Lebanon looms, with members of Israel's government stoking it. haaretz.com Criticism over the governments' inability to allow some 60,000 Israelis to return to their homes near the Lebanese border is mounting. The government may be tempted to seek a way out of the deadlock with Hezbollah and risk a full-scale war…

Staff (2024-07-01). IDF soldier killed in south Gaza fighting, Israeli army announces. haaretz.com Rocket hit a house in Metula, city's council says ‚ñ Palestinians say woman, teen killed by IDF in West Bank ‚ñ Spain asks to join ICJ genocide charges against Israel ‚ñ Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital director released after being held in Israel for seven months ‚ñ IDF: 20 rockets fired from Gaza at Israeli southern border communities ‚ñ BBC report: West Bank Palestinians say they were forced by IDF soldiers on top of army jeep hood…

newarab (2024-07-01). Algeria police raid book event, briefly arrest French author. newarab.com Algerian police briefly arrested a French author and her Algerian publisher along with others during a raid on her book event, the publisher told French news agency AFP on Sunday. | Dominique Martre, author of "La Kabylie en partage" ("Shared Kabylia"), was arrested alongside her husband and the owner of the bookshop, said Arezki Ait-Larbi, director of the Koukou publishing house, who was himself detained. | "The police stormed the bookstore at the start of the book presentation on Saturday afternoon and arrested everyone who was in the hall," Ait-Larbi said. | "We were taken to the police station before we we…

ecns.cn (2024-07-01). Travel to mainland to be more convenient for non-Chinese permanent residents of HK, Macao. ecns.cn China's immigration authorities announced on Monday a new measure that will make it more convenient for non-Chinese permanent residents of Hong Kong and Macao to travel to the mainland.

ecns.cn (2024-07-01). Non-Chinese permanent residents of HK, Macao can apply for mainland travel permit starting from July 10. ecns.cn Starting from July 10, 2024, travel documents for entering and exiting the mainland will be issued to non-Chinese permanent residents of Hong Kong and Macao: National Immigration Administration.

Emmanuelle Carton (2024-07-01). The Pact on Migration and Asylum: another step forward for necropolitics in Europe. cadtm.org

geo.tv (2024-07-01). Australia increases student visa fee by more than 100%. geo.tv International students from China wear graduation gowns as they take pictures around the University of Sydney's campus in Sydney, Australia, July 4, 2020. — Reuters SYDNEY: In a bid to limit record migration, the Australian government has doubled its visa fee for…

Speak Out Now (2024-07-01). Saturday 7/20: The Forced Migration Crisis At The Border. indybay.org South Berkeley Senior Center (2939 Ellis Street, Berkeley, CA 94703)…

Morning Star (2024-07-01). French far right ahead in first round vote. peoplesworld.org France's far right is in the lead after the first round of parliamentary elections that confirmed their dominance in French politics and brought them to the gates of power. Supporters of Marine Le Pen's anti-immigration National Rally (RN) cheered Sunday as she said the president's "Macronist bloc has been all but wiped out." RN was …

Pressenza New York (2024-07-01). Trump/Biden Debate Immigration: US Foreign Policy as a Driver Is Ignored. pressenza.com Give me your tired, your poor, | Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, | The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, | Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, | I lift my lamp beside the golden door! | Emma Lazarus's inscription on the Statue of Liberty | The contestants squared off in the first of the US presidential debates of 2024. Both wore identical white shirts and navy suits with American flag lapel pins. One wore a red tie; the other a blue one. There were other differences, but none quite so substantive. | The immigration issue dominated the debate. The challenger claimed that the country wa…

WSWS (2024-07-01). Bheed: The plight of India's migrant workers during the COVID-19 lockdown. wsws.org The film exposes the nightmarish difficulties suffered by the Indian masses after the Modi government imposed a COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020.

aljazeera (2024-07-01). Indonesian band takes stand for Taiwan's migrant workers. aljazeera.com Southern Riot mix poetry and punk to create songs that rail against the exploitation and abuse of migrant workers.

teleSUR, JCM (2024-07-01). EE.UU. anuncia que limita las solicitudes de asilo en la frontera. telesurtv.net Su entrada en vigor se producirá cuando el número de cruces en la frontera supere los 2.500 diarios durante una semana.

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